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Megan Schofill USGA 2023 Women's Champion · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Dizzy from the spin, don't know what to believe? Clear the fog.
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  The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven WFLA,
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  thirty six minutes after the hour. It's the Morning Show. It's Thursday,
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  August twenty fourth. Great to be with you this morning. Grant Allen running
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  the program. I'm Preston Scott for the four thousand, nine hundred ninety third
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  time here we are together, and I am stoked to have back on the
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  program. Megan Scophil and I get to say the raining United States Golf Association
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  Amateur Women's Champion. Megan, congratulations, how's that sound? Thanks so much.
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  I appreciate it. Yet, It's definitely something I'm not used to yet,
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  but hopefully in the next coming months it will be something I'm used to
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  hearing. For those that do not know your background, your Manicello girl,
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  you're a North Florida girl playing golf at Auburn University. We talked last when
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  you were heading to augusta National talk a little bit about kind of that that
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  stepping path of going from one type of competition to collegiate now the national amateur.
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  Your game just has constantly peaked and crescendoed, and you continue to do
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  that. How'd you get ready to compete in the US Amateur A lot of
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  practice over the summer. I feel like when I'm home, I work a
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  lot on my game and just kind of get to play a lot of golf.
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  I mean, we travel a lot, we play all these different courses,
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  but not just playing the same course, really figuring out your game.
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  And I felt like my game was in a really good place going out to
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  LA and kind of just rode that momentum a little bit, had a little
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  bit of struggles in the practice round, but I felt like once I started
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  stroke play, I really felt really confident with how I was playing and didn't
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  hit any crazy shots and just really stay committed to my routine in my process
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  that I was going through and really just honestly focused on that the whole week
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  and not outcome. How different is it? The Usameter is kind of two
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  tournaments. There's the stroke play, like you just talked about, and that
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  qualifies you for the match play. Discuss the differences in how you attack a
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  golf course or play. Yeah, so for stroke play, especially in two
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  days of stroke play, I mean even part you're probably gonna make the cut.
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  Especially on the USDA style course, they set it up hard to even
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  part is great scores all the time, and a lot of times, like
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  there's a superstition that every person you don't want to be medalists at the medalist
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  always gets bumped out either like the first or second round. So it's always
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  one of those things you don't you want to play good, but you don't
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  want to play two good, and so you kind of just really for me,
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  I just trying to shoot make a ton of pars. If I made
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  a lot of pars, I knew I was going to make the cut,
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  and just really focus on that. And then once you get into match play,
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  then you're really playing that person. But at the same time you want
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  to still try and play the golf course because I think if you get too
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  wrapped up and playing that person, then you kind of just lose sight of
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  like, Okay, if I just make pars and beat her with my score,
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  then I'm going to be the winner at the end of the match.
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  But it is tough like to switch that mindset and just know that like if
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  you if y'all both have a great day, it's like you could have beaten
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  anyone else, but y'all both are playing amazing golf. So now one of
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  a like a really good player is going to get beat out. It's tough,
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  but I mean, I personally think my mindset changes maybe a little,
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  but not a crazy amount. Honestly, this is The Morning Show with Preston
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  Scott, one of my favorite subjects in the world to talk about golf,
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  played that since nineteen sixty five, love the game and to have with us.
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  Meghan Scofield, Megan, if I go through the list of names that
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  are sitting on that trophy, you know you've got names like Julie Inkster,
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  more recent names Megan, Morgan Pressel, You've got you've got some of the
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  Hall of Fame names of Joanne Carner and of course Louise Suggs and then Babe
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  Diedrichson, Zaharius. What do you think about the fact your name now is
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  on that trophy forever? Yeah, it definitely is something I feel like every
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  amateur golfers like Durst and four like that's what you want to do. You
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  want to make make history. And so whenever it was all of a sudden
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  downe, I was just like I still couldn't believe it. I was like,
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  I'm always going to be the US Women's Amateur Champion, Like people are
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  always going to see that when they get the trophy every single year, like
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  it's always gonna be around. It's it's such an honor, honestly, just
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  to have my name with all those other grades that you just listed. What's
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  next? Are Is there going to be an effort to repeat this title or
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  is professional golf calling first? Yeah, so I'm gonna I'm gonna do my
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  fifth year at Auburn, so I'm actually back at school, Gonna remain amateur
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  for the rest of this year Duke Q School in the fall of twenty twenty
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  four. I haven't decided if I'm going to go back and play the US
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  Women's Amateur because the British Open and those kind of overlay. So I'm I'm
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  gonna play the British Open for sure, so I'll just see if it fits
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  into my schedule. But I'm really in no rush to turn pro. I
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  definitely I'm going to enjoy my last year at Auburn and just really soak up
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  all the time I have left here. What's been the coolest I don't know
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  sort of perk of having won that title. You I didn't say the coolest
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  thing is I'm getting into the British Open. Is that the old course of
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  Saint Andrews. Oh Man. Yeah, that'll be a really neat experience because
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  like my parents, my sister, a bunch of my like family and friends
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  are going to come over and so that'll just be like I mean, I
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  don't know how many British Opens I'm gonna play it, but to play my
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  first one at Dan Andrews will be something hard to top. So how early
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  do you go over to get used to playing links golf and playing that course
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  or do you find the closest simulator and spend like four hours on a simulator?
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  Yeah, I'm well, I'm lucky. One of my teammates I'm really
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  good friends, but she lived in outside Dublin, and so my plan is
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  to try and go over a little bit early and go play some courses in
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  Dublin, just get used to the golf there and then head over to Scotland.
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  Ah, life is good when you are a us GA champion. Megan.
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  Yeah, I'm just go back for just a second to the golf course
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  itself. You played it at a historic location. You won your tournament title
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  at bel Air. When you first arrived there, what did you determine was
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  the best way for you to learn about that golf course and get inside the
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  head of the architect to beat it. I mean, honestly, I felt
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  like the course was kind of right in front of you. The hardest thing
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  for me was to get used to is how firm the greens were, and
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  just really getting used to how much they were releasing, how much they were
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  rolling out. C J and I we talked a lot to the superintendent that
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  week, just kind of about the golf course, what they're trying to do.
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  We're always kind of fascinated by those things, so he just always was
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  talking to us, just telling us, like what they like to do their
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  course, that kind of thing. But yeah, no, I mean that
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  golf course was just unbelievable. It's just kind of one of those things that
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  I really loved the course and the layout of it. I just loved how
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  it looked and just was my week, you know, like I felt really
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  confident and comfortable on that course. Well, I couldn't be happier for you.
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  I watched every single hole that they televised of you playing just because we
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  were fortunate to have you on the show a few years ago and was pulling
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  for you to play well, and well you did. Congratulations, Megan,
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  really thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Thanks for the time
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  today. Megan scophil with us this morning on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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  And it's not often you say that someone from your area is a USGA
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  national champion. In her case, she is the United States Women's Amateur golf
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  champion for twenty twenty three. And what an amazing accomplishment, really just amazing,
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  And if you were a golfer and you watched any of it, she
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  didn't back her way into it. She played terrific golf all week long.
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  In fact, she talked about the higher seeds getting knocked out. She was
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  the highest remaining seed. I think she finished sixth or seventh and in the
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  metalist standing, so she played well in stroke play, but she was the
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  seventh seed if I remember correctly, and survived at all, survived all the
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  carnage and one four and three, which is a very comfortable win in the
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  finals. So great to have around the program here in the Morning Show with
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  Preston Scott,